The Umaru Musa Yar'dua University (UMYU) has received approval fpr 14 new courses. This was contained in a letter addressed to the Vice-Chancellor of the university by the NUC.

The content of the letter reads, "the  Vice-Chancellor is please invited to recall that a resource verification visit was carried out by panels of experts to some proposed academic programmes in Umaru Musa Var'adua University, Katsina with a view to assessing the human and material resources available for their establishment.

I am directed to inform the Vice-Chancellor that the Executive Secretary has considered and approved the establishment of the full-time mode of the following undergraduate programmes, to be run in the Main Campus of the University with effect from the 2021/2022 academic session:

1. MBBS. Medicine and Surgery Management

2. B. Forestry and Wildlife

3. B.Ed. Integrated Science

4. B.Sc. Meteorology

5. B.Agric. Agricultural Science

6. B.Ed. Business Studies Education

7. B.Sc. Environmental Management

8. B.Sc. International Relations

9. B.Ed. Primary Education Studies

10. B.Sc. Fisheries and Aquaculture

11.B.Sc. Local Government and Development Studies

12. B.Ed. Early Childhood Education

13. B.Sc. (Ed) Computer Sciatice Education

14. B.Ed. Special Education

I am to add that the approval does not cover the part-time mode of delivery of the programmes The programines shall bear only the approved titles and nomenclatures and any change will require the approval of the Commission. The University is enjoined to provide adequate human and material resources for the development and growth of the approved programmes."